Memory Usage

Hi,

I bought a new laptop two days ago. It is a DELL Inspiron 13 5000 13.3 inch 2 in 1 convertible touchscreen laptop. The CPU is an i3-7100U and it has 4 GB RAM with a 1TB HDD. I noticed it can lag a bit when I open anything. Nothing has been downloaded onto the Laptop, I haven't even saved a file on it yet. So, I checked task manager and I noticed the memory usage consistently sits at around 60% when I have nothing open, not even an Internet browser. It moves up to 70% if I open chrome. Is this normal? I also noticed that there is 88 background processes running all the time. Is this normal and if so should I just add more RAM? I have also noticed that the Disk usage can shoot up to 100% sometimes.

My Windows Processes alone number 92 and there's lots of others, presently have 2 instances of Firefox open and several tabs in both. More RAM is always good as Windows likes to use as much as it can get. My computer has 16GB RAM. I don't care as much for "disk usage" as I do drive activity [usage can apply to the amount of data/file storage]. There are processes that read and write to/from the drive and part is due to Virtual Memory/paging file/swap file and part is due to an anti-virus or anti-malware programs doing their thing.

Run this log collector and post a zip into this thread:
log collector v2-beta08.zip

Yes, that's all normal. 4 GB is just not enough RAM.
No point in running any analysis at all.
I take the view that standard Laptops should not be produced at all with 4 GB of RAM as almost immediately they require upgrading.
Buyer beware.

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